For questions relating to physical access to the CIRA campus, please contact Erin Carleton via email at Erin.Carleton@colostate.edu
For all other questions please contact Holli Knutson at 970-491-8209 or via email at Holli.Knutson@colostate.edu.
For the latest updates about COVID-19, visit safety.colostate.edu/coronavirus. Engineering-specific information for students can be found on the Current Students page
The CoRP Science Symposium is postponed until late Summer – early Autumn 2022. Due to logistical difficulties implementing some of the objectives of the meeting – namely to facilitate the building of community between NESDIS CSCs and CIs, it was decided to delay the meeting to allow the face-to-face interaction that is so important to build relationships.
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Our MissionThe Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) serves as a nexus for multi-disciplinary cooperation between NOAA research scientists and Colorado State University research staff, faculty, and students, aligning NOAA-identified research theme areas with long-standing academic strengths of the University. Our mission is: to foster additional collaboration with national and international agencies who are developing related capabilities; to affect the fundamental research conducted at the University towards NOAA’s operational needs; and to communicate our research and its practical implications to the scientific community and the public. To this end, we are dedicated to: providing high-quality training to ensure operational user proficiency; conducting outreach programs to K-12 education and the general public to promote environmental literacy; and to quantifying and communicating the significant positive societal impacts of NOAA research on our everyday lives. |
With NOAA and CSU support CIRA has operated a Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) Earth Station since 1980. Today our collection capability handles multiple simultaneous GOES transmissions, NOAA polar data, Himawari-8 and European MSG. CIRA also plays an important role in each new GOES satellite as one of the primary test sites for initial transmissions and sensor verification.
CIRA operates a high-technology infrastructure to support research in our major theme areas. The infrastructure contains over 300 workstations/servers, a satellite Earth Station with an online archive, several high-performance modelling clusters, and a high-speed network. With its expertise in data fusion, CIRA is developing systems and tools that will simplify the acquisition and manipulation of satellite and model data for scientific research.
